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Definition of painterliness in English:

painterliness

noun

‘I luxuriated in the sheer painterliness of the canvases as I was simultaneously entranced by the drama of the emotional changes they charted.’

‘Here, a restrained painterliness vies with a softened geometry and an intimation of space.’

‘Luscious and rich, the very painterliness of the paint imbues the canvasses with a powerful visual impact that transcends the ordinary.’

‘These are works that celebrate paint and painterliness, with abstract expressionist style.’

‘The combination of expressive painterliness and deft realism characteristic of Sargent's painting was admired internationally and imitated by many lesser artists.’

‘In the plaster couple the painterliness of facture is accentuated by applied highlights of color, while in the bronzes the verdant patina emphasizes the work's mass over its flickering surface.’

‘This encouraged a dramatic painterliness in many artists - such as Delacroix and Turner - and made it into a precursor of modernism in this as in many other aspects.’

‘The gentle hunger, the fresh rite, the sensation, the facticity of tabletop dining are all captured with both precision and painterliness through a photographic preparatory stage.’

‘The painterliness of its atmospheric and textural effects suggests that Donatello not merely had painters in mind but was determined to outdo them.’

‘Here, Downes's painterliness has sprouted where it could have been least anticipated: surrounded by a Minimalist's monument to the absolute.’

‘We always seem to be digging through the layers of Taaffe's paintings for new meanings, here evidenced by a new looseness and painterliness.’

‘Fidelity to plausible appearances receives a relatively low priority, but the painterliness of some areas of this work signals another system of knowledge high in Eakins's hierarchy: the art of painting.’

‘Lipsky's hand-painted edges and the sweet smell of oil paint that had subtly impregnated the gallery were the only echoes of Guston's painterliness.’

‘By mid-decade he had begun to mix his Pop-style image of painterliness with streaks of pigment laid on with a brush.’

‘Pop's brashness, its refusal of painterliness, its scale and its willingness to work with even the most degraded elements of consumer culture all found a responsive echo in his subsequent painting.’

‘It is this literal lack of resolution, a mechanized painterliness which leaves a great deal to the imagination and loads the photographs with abstraction, that makes the images so compelling.’

‘In their painterliness, they seem the antithesis of photorealism.’

‘We follow his learning process through the early 1600s and by 1612 are left in no doubt that he has assumed the mantle of Titian as a model of painterliness and acuity.’